Sans toit ni loi

1985 [FRENCH]

Action / Drama / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 100% · 26 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 84% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.6/10 10 16142 16.1K

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Plot summary

Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking odd jobs and staying with whomever will offer her a place to sleep. Mona is fiercely independent, craving freedom over comfort, but it is this desire to be free that will eventually lead to her demise.

Director

Top cast

Sandrine Bonnaire as Mona Bergeron, sans toit ni loi
Jacques Berthier as Le petit monsieur bien-mis
Macha Méril as La platanologue Mme Landier
Stéphane Freiss as Jean-Pierre, ingéneur agronome
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975.22 MB
1204*720
French 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 46 min
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1.77 GB
1792*1072
French 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 46

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

Sandrine Bonnaire delivers really quite well in this

Sandrine Bonnaire delivers really quite well in this observational drama of a young, rootless, girl who roams the countryside living from hand to mouth. Now we start with "Mona" dead in a ditch - so there's little jeopardy, but that also serves a useful frame of reference to this depiction of her last fortnight or so of life. It's presented episodically as she encounters a goat-herder, squats with a pot-smoker for a few days, falls in love with an handsome Tunisian grape-picker and my own favourite - manages to get quite well oiled with a curmudgeonly old lady who simply needed to let her hair down. Each day brings her something new and the flashback style of storytelling allows us to reset a little between her adventures. Each time she, and we, feel maybe there is sense that hope isn't far away as she plays a game of Russian Roulette with her daily life. Some people are sympathetic, some downright hostile and it's all of these characteristics that contribute well to this punchy portrait of a strong woman who has no idea what she wants, nor what she doesn't want either. Does she clamour for peace, quiet, security? Does she thrive better on the unpredicable? One of my favourite Varda films - it's freedom and openness of visuals and spirit is compellingly augmented by Bonnaire and a cast of engaging character actors some you might like and some you probably won't. To what extent this is an accurate representation of rural life and small village mentality is also a question we are left to assess for ourselves and it all makes for a drama that works on several levels.
Reviewed by Xstal 8 / 10

Bleak, Barren & Bitter...

You're an outcast, left to fend all on your own, reasons unclear, and only you're the one who knows, wandering the barren lands, in a winter where cold's fanned, on occasion some small morsel might be thrown. The net, that's meant to catch your fall has failed, as you cascade along a lost and lonely trail, folks indifferent to your plight, you're frustrations causing flight, becoming cornered, without wind to catch your sail.

Through an outstanding performance from Sandrine Bonnaire, the late, great Agnès Varda leaves us under no illusion of the cause of a young woman's death during her winter of discontent.

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